I’ve been reviewing some old material for an upcoming class on bondage as a tool toward spiritual release. This book is one of my hard-to-find treasures: Earthly Bondage by Brigett Harrington. https://www.passionandsoul.com/blog/soul/earthly-bondage
I’ll be teaching this class with Goddess Dior and the House of Diamond, About the Many Path Of Earthly Bondage and one of the core paths we’ll be diving into is the art of Nihilomancy: divination through nothingness.
“I call upon thee, wisdom in darkness…”
From that invocation, the chapter plunges us into a world where silence, restraint, and the absence of external stimuli become gateways to the divine.
The practice of Niihilomancy dark and sensuyal exploration of how sensory deprivation can be used not just for kink, but for deep inner work, divination, and astral travel. It walks a fine edge between mysticism and embodiment, showing how blindfolds, hoods, vows of silence, bondage, and mummification are not only tools of restraint, but instruments of revelation.
By removing outside distractions (sight, sound, movement), the body and mind enter an altered state where messages can rise from deep within the soul, and from the spirit world.
It’s where the world is stripped away until only the question remains:
- Where do I go from here?
- What choice is mine to make?
- What truths lie beyond the body?
Their is a ritual to preparing for this; laying out sacred items and calling upon spiritual forces before entering the sensory void. With each layer :rope, hood, scent, silence. you get closer to the inner realm where wisdom lives.
What stands out most is the gravity of ritual. Each object whether rope, oil, or spandex becomes charged with intentionality. There is a rhythm to the preparation, an architecture to the ritual that feels devotional, erotic, and sacred all at once. The ritual explores both the somatic and the spiritual experience of sensory deprivation as a threshold art: the portal.
Think less “nothingness” in the empty sense, and more the void, the liminal space, the fertile dark.
Whether through fasting, purging, or embedding sigils within the wrappings and around your ritual space, it evokes/invoke something powerful. Death lingering in the margins: the surrender of control, ego, movement, consciousness. But instead of despair, it offers a promise… answers.
while doing this ritual it describes you’ll feel the shadows settle around you. You’ll hear the call to your own dark silence.
what is clear the path is laid in layers:
Fasting or purging .
Setting the ritual space
Laying out tools.
Invoking spirits guides or ancestors.
Embedding sigils.
With every layer, with every sense denied, a different kind of awareness opens.
Sometimes, that leads to wisdom from self.
Sometimes, it leads to channeling a presence.
Sometimes, it leads to delicious dissolution.
Let’s be clear:
This is erotic mysticism: raw, reverent, and real.
For those in our coven of kinky mystics and sensual scholars, that aren’t afraid to talk about getting ridden by godforms.
Because even in darkness, we need witnesses.
If you’ve ever longed to use your body as a spell, your silence as a question, and your restraints as a roadmap to spirit
this one’s for you.
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